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The Vietnam War began
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John F. Merchant was the second black to enter the University of Virginia Law School, but he was the first to matriculate in 1958.
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Martin Luther King ends bus boycott after US Supreme affirms that segregation in busing must end.
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Students protests over sit-in leaders’ expulsions at Baton Rouge’s Southern University, the nation’s largest black school, close it down.
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Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis. Ralph Abernathy succeeds him as SCLC President
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Apollo XI space missions, first manned landing on the moon.
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National Black Feminist Organization is founded. Homosexuality is struck off the list of mental disorders by the American Psychiatric Association. Women are almost 45 percent of the US workforce.
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The Vietnam War ended.